Montreal mayor opposes law forcing burqa-wearing women to show faces to access public services

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is challenging the Province of Quebec for “forcing Muslim women to uncover their faces if they want access to public services.” Should Coderre succeed, the public will be put at risk, not because of so-called “Islamophobia,” but because there have been widespread jihad attacks throughout the West and continued calls from the Islamic State calls and al Qaeda to attack Western civilians. Anyone can cover his or her face with a burqa or niqab. It is the right of the public and in the interest of all Westerners to continue the practice of outlawing face masks in public.

Recently, I had a medical practitioner confide in me that it is a horror to her team when Muslim women in burqas walk behind their husbands, and their husbands answer their personal medical questions for them. When it comes time for blood pressure checks or blood tests, that medical professionals often observe bruises and burns, but remain silent so as to not rock the boat. This represents the pervasive and dangerous gag order that has been forcefully imposed on a once-free Western society. To be enablers of this abuse of Muslim women who arrive on Western soil is unconscionable, as are FGM, honor killings and the general subjugation of women. This is the kind of abuse that Coderre is advocating for in the name of tolerance. As the Daily Caller article below points out:

The municipal-provincial spat is just the latest between the liberal and comopolitan metropolis and the rest of a province that is increasingly insistent that immigrants adapt to the majority culture.

Alarmingly:

Mayor Denis Coderre, who continues to welcome thousands of illegal refugees into his city every week, said Friday the Quebec legislation will force even bus drivers in Montreal to become “burqa police.”

There are a few other troubling things about Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre:

He signed a quiet deal with Iran to boost “mutual cooperation.” This was despite the fact that the Conservative Harper government shut down Iran’s embassy in Ottawa, given its expansionary ambitions as a terrorist regime. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s press secretary Rick Roth stated that “diplomatic collapse was ‘the result of Iran’s own actions,’ including its support for the Syrian regime, nuclear program, ‘racist rhetoric’ and failure to protect foreign embassies.” The sudden decision to close the embassy was more broadly due to the revelation of a tight network of Iranian terrorists expanding as a “fifth column” in Canada.

In February, Coderre pushed for Montreal to become a “sanctuary city” for migrants, and tweeted to undermine Trump: “Message to Donald @POTUS Trump. Montreal proud ‘Sanctuary City’ Newcomers & refugees are welcome. Diversity is our strength and part of our DNA.”

Coderre has been lenient in cracking down on the spread of jihadist sentiments in his city. Following the jihad attack in Brussels, the Mayor of Quebec City, Régis Labeaume, stated that greater scrutiny of mosques was needed. Coderre shot down Labeaume’s idea, calling it “profiling.” Coderre also flatly denied that jihad messages are being spread from mosques, and blamed only the Internet for such messages.

Coderre has been operating in foreign interests, not in the interests of Montreal or of Canada. Rather noteworthy — and also confusing — is a mixed message from former Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, who stated, according to the National Post, that “the Liberal government isn’t about to stop calling the Islamic Republic a state sponsor of terror.”

In contrast to the efforts by Mayor Coderre to undermine Canadian unity, now showing up again in this most recent burqa debate, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is correct and well reasoned in his analysis:

It’s not a matter of dictating to people in Montreal how to dress. We’re just talking about a clear and simple principle: having an uncovered face to give and receive public services, for reasons of communications, identification and safety.

“Montreal Opposes Law That Forces Muslim Women To Remove Burqas”, by David Krayden, Daily Caller, August 19, 2017:

The mayor of sanctuary city Montreal doesn’t want to enforce a provincial law that would force Muslim women to uncover their faces if they want access to pubic services.

Mayor Denis Coderre, who continues to welcome thousands of illegal refugees into his city every week, said Friday the Quebec legislation will force even bus drivers in Montral [sic] to become “burqa police.”

The municipal-provincial spat is just the latest between the liberal and comopolitan [sic] metropolis and the rest of a province that is increasingly insistent that immigrants adapt to the majority culture.

Bill 62 was introduced by the Liberal provincial government and merely dictates that both government clerks dispensing government services and those receiving them cannot cover their face. It says nothing about Muslim women or the the wearing of the burqa.

The legislation was only supposed to relate to areas of provincial jurisdiction but Quebec’s justice minister decided to expand the law to cover municipal services and even those operating public transit.

Coderre, a former federal immigration minister in the Liberal government of Jean Chretien, proclaimed Montreal a sanctuary city in February, just as asylum seekers began to pour across the Quebec border from New York. On Friday he rejected the province’s order that municipal authorities will enforce the law, suggesting it would be difficult if not impossible to do so.

“Are we going to say to the driver, ‘I’ve become the burqa or niqab police, and I’ll decide who gets on the bus or not?’” Coderre asked at a news conference at Montreal city hall. “And if the driver says you can come in, will we have citizens who take the law into their own hands?”

But Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said there could be no municipal exceptions to the law.

“This law will apply throughout Quebec,” he said to reporters on Friday. “We can’t allow Quebec’s biggest city, its metropolis, not be part of the same landscape.”….

To leave muslim women covered without recognizion who they are behind the vail is utmost stupidity, if they come to Canada we can give them freedom of religion but they have to submit to the same rules as other Canadians must submit, even minorities groups have, i.e. Christians, Jews, Budhists, Hindi etc.who must show their faces. Religions should not be mixed with Law of the country and common sense must prevail..
Cannot fathom the stuipidity of our leaders. why do they not protect Canadians? Don’t they know of the danger this could potentially mean to us? Leder who does not look after his home first, is not a leader at all, but a sucker. He should be removed from his office.

@David
He looks like a leftist dictator…an idiot…Muslims come here for what reason? Certainly not to become American or Canadian.They are here to have us become Muslim..period! They are on a mission DAWA to multiply and infiltrate all facets of society in the country that they occupy until they are in the majority and can take over the country….THE PREDICTION IS THAT LONDON WILL BE RE-NAMED, ALLAHTOWN…….AND the opposition will be way outnumbered by the Muslims to do anything about it. Canada may also become another “Islamohell”

These muslim women will never be able to free themselves if we don’t support good action that allows it. Laws banning this oppressive tradition will give them the leverage they need to break free. This mayoral baboon doesn’t support women with his counter measure, he apparently prefers them in submission. And of course there’s the safety concerns too, masked identities make crime that much easier. Politicians that portray the wearing of islamic coverings as some kind of right or privilege are encouraging a pattern of abuse that muslims import into our nation. It reminds me of Jim Crow but against muslim women. Yes, let’s all support the continued oppression of muslim women by muslim males who see them as worth half a man deserving a good beating. That seems to be what the baboon with his finger in the air is saying (hmmm…where have we seen that finger before?) I don’t know what other people call “men” like this, I call it a scumbag.

Actually, in Syria they passed a law against women wearing facial coverings on university campuses.
Canada seems not to understand the significance of the practice of forcing women to cover their faces.

I passed through Montreal once, Everyone I encountered refused to speak English; it was French or nothing and all signs were in French. French Canadians and Muslims deserve each other! If the French want to assimilate themselves out of existence, I say go for it…

Recently an Australian MP caused an absolute furore for donning the full burqa during a senate hearing as part of a campaign to have it banned.

What was more disturbing was the severe condemnation and criticism that she received for doing so from all of the other parliamentarians, bowing as they do to the absolute dictates of PC gone mad.

This is despite the fact that the majority of Australians want to see the burqa banned, both because it is a security risk and because it is the most hideous symbol of the oppression and subjugation of women that has no place in an open liberal society.

Even more outrageously, the only female Muslim MP in Australia denounced her actions as being tantamount to raising the flag of fascism: “Never, never in my life did I expect to see the Nazi flag flying so blatantly and with such force….”

I would have thought that wearing the burka was the equivalent to wearing the swastika, so talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!!

Most disgusting is the Attorney General, who cluelessly claims that the vicious creed of Islam is compatible with being a good Australian citizen, and castigates Ms. Hanson for sowing disrespect to a garment that completely erases the identity of those who wear it. *Ugh*.

In our culture it is normal for a person to see the face of someone they are talking to, asking questions of, and to whom we are dispensing publically funded services. If we cannot see facial expression it is easy for a person who lies to evade detection.

The rest of Canadians AND new immigrants are expected to follow this interaction principle, why should a small minority group be afforded a privilege that no others in Canada can have.

Obviously, it seems that the health and safety of muslim women who wear the burka or hijab is being compromised if bruising and burns are being hidden from view. The wearing of facial and body covering means a muslim husband is free to beat his wife without any fear of getting caught and punished.

This is unacceptable in a civilized society and MUST change. This Mayor is an idiot.

That is the stupidity of people to put muslims and muslim lovers in high places in governments.
You should have held to your own country laws steady from the beginning. Everybody has to keep to the same laws. These are the consequences of the leftists.
I agree with Tom,but if they had stopped this from the beginning, you would not have had all the commotion>
What mess they brought on us. And where are the feminists? Probably women thought they would get a better life, but now, forget it. It seems to be all acceptable now, and the mayor might be an idiot, but the leftists were before him. You got what you wanted !!!

The mayor looking for the Islamic and progressive libtard voting blocks .Instead of facing real problems in government he is pandering to the two worst most intolerant hate groups in the “free” western world. What would he do if the Islamics want to have separate public pools attack woman in shorts? Have new no go zones for the police to not enter? It all starts with the pandering asswipes the libtards elected and ends with Islamic beast eating them.

What a buffoon!!
Social cohesion, integration, diversity, blah! blah! blah! How is it possible?
That Any connection could be made with a covered, hidden and masked entity the whole aspect says ‘go away – I am separate from you’.
This will never be part of a progressive, compassionate society until there is emancipation for muslim women. Don’t see that happening any time soon.

One must remember that Coderre is a former minister of Immigration at the federal level. So he knows that refugees once arived will have to be vetted before they are accepted permanently.
His current attitude on the burqa is just posturing as a Mayor of Montreal who refuses to be ordered about by the premier of Quebec (also a Liberal) and a way to get support and subsidies from the liberal PM in Ottawa!
Coderre is no fool.

NFSE Never fucking surrender, ever is the motto of the EDL (English Defence League). Any compliance to sharia law by Westerner will be interpreted by muzzies as weakness and rightly so. That means when we comply they’ll demand more and we’ll end up in a sharia state, no state under the rule of law.

No. follow the EDL motto and tell muzzies to shut obey our laws and keep their traps shut, that works

I don’t think this tool is being threatened or bribed. I think he is “virtue signalling”–enmired in suicidal “political correctness”. After all, not all of those in agreement with him are being bribed or directly threatened.

Much of this enabling is rooted in virtue signalling, the wish to shine as an (imagined) social justice warrior. Like the “Welcome refugees” sign holders they have not bothered to educate themselves about the Islamic theology and it’s goal of social and religious supremacy.

They view themselves as MLK style reformers of discrimination against innocents, not realizing that not everyone is an innocent victim – some are working steadily to destroy your entire society.

When I was a kid, I remember when they passed the Civil Rights Act that a lot of old, Conservative politicians were openly crying. I could not understand why. It seemed like a good thing at the time.
Now I understand why they were crying.
Those old 30s and 40s era politicians understood this was the just first step of a relentless progression of a favored group endlessly demanding concessions from society that would never stop.
They understood that politics has never been, and will never be, about anything but political power.
They were right.
Now, people who were not even born here demand to be treated as if above all the norms of our culture. They demand apologies and Pharaoh’s ransoms if crossed. And they get it.
Because they hold the political power.

Is there any law in the LGBT+ friendly Canada against non-Muslim men – perhaps transvestites – wearing a burka or a complete female Muslim outfit, when they go to the bank or move around in public places? If not, such a phenomenon would place the mayor of Montreal in a suitable ironic dilemma.

This ugly issue, this Islamic cause célèbre is not about any person’s “freedom of religion” or how they may “like to dress”. It’s the most visible, physical manifestation of what in anthropological terms is called “mate guarding”, of Islam’s vicious patriarchy and misogyny. However it’s much more sinister than just that.

The burqa is more than an affront to the sensibilities, an in-your-face insult, rejection of civility and passive-aggressive statement of someone’s unwillingness to engage with others — it’s much more sinister than just that. It’s a Trojan Horse, a hostile act, a strategic disruption, a blatant challenge and direct, existential threat to our very values and way of life. It was described long ago as like seeing death going for a walk. And not just that of the suffering soul trapped within. It’s mere tolerance in our midst, its every presence is to witness the Islamic Grim Reaper’s plan for the death of Western society.

Our personal freedom, our society’s freedom, it’s very survival, trumps this and every bogus assertion of “freedom” made by the Muslims and their legions of Dhimmi apologists. Ban the bloody burqa! Ban Islam!

The mayor is just another bought out politician. Will this Mayor let the rest of Canada know what the bill adds up to for the criminal and other strained resources that his parasitic UTOPIA eats out from real Canadians.

Their are senior citizens in Montreal that are eating cat food and dog food because they can make ends meet, yet Mayor Denis Coderre is only happy to embrace foreigners, who have never payed a tax dollar over needy Canadians.

He needs the face covering. And the women all look the same with only the eyes showing. How can they be identified if they cover their faces for photos, welfare, and whatever else.
And many moslum men don the garment in order to commit crimes or make their escape afterward.

This guy is a fool….and may as well be kissing the carpet, bending to the saudi land. Maybe he does already.

Opposes the Oil Industry yet agrees with plans to dump tons of raw sewage into the ST. Lawrence River while inviting hundreds of illegal migrants into this historic Canadian City . Seems to be tons of Raw Sewage between his ears also !!!

I have a different take on the niqab. It is not only a tool for the oppression of women. In the area where I live in America, we don’t have many foreign Muslims in face coverings. We have, instead, Nation of Islam Black Muslims, women who grew up as privileged Americans, but who chose to express their hostility to America by aligning themselves with the racist, America-hating Nation of Islam. They can be seen driving their big SUV’s, in jeans and hijab/niqab, out shopping unescorted in suburbia. These women are not oppressed. But they enjoy capitalizing on the threat that wearing a mask engenders. It is simply an expression of their hostility.

Has anyone ever mentioned the similarity between the jihadi’s bacalava and the niqab? Why is he covering his face? Not for modesty, as the claim is for women. He’s doing it so he can threaten you without your knowing who he is. Why does the executioner wear a mask? Why does the bank robber wear a ski mask? Why do clerks at convenience stores know to press the alarm and hit the floor when they see someone enter in a ski mask?

So Muslims get to oppress their women and strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers all in one maneuver.

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